Hi Folks,
OK, here's a listing of galleries that you can see as part of the largest photographic exhibition in North America - Contact Photo Festival.
This tour outlined below shows galleries in an enclosed area called the Distillery District which was a very old Gooterhams and Worts plant. There is a historical importance to this tour because of the venue.
My recommendation is to go to this area on Friday, May 5 since there will be less tourists. I believe this tour will be guided by someone from the Elevator staff. TBD.
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ARTCORE/FABRICE MARCOLINI
DATASCAPES
JOAN FONTCUBERTA
Award-winning Barcelona-based photographer Fontcuberta presents two new bodies of digital work. In Googlegrams, mosaics of culturally charged images are created from smaller, conceptually related snapshots culled via Google image searches. Penny-sized portraits of the richest men and women in the world are pieced together into a mosaic depicting a homeless man; the iconic image of a detainee tortured at Abu Ghraib is cobbled together out of images of public officials involved in the scandal. In Landscapes without Memory, Fontcuberta co-opts a different piece of software, one originally designed to turn 2-D information photographs or satellite imagery into three-D landscapes. Using it, Fontcuberta tranforms masterworks by Turner, Cézanne, Dalí, Stieglitz and Weston into mountains, rivers, valleys and clouds. The vocabulary of art thus becomes that of cartography.
BALZAC'S CAFE
TRIOFOTO
STEPHEN BURNIE, RAMSES MOYA, JOHN RIDDELL
Stephen Burnie works in fine art abstracts - shooting nature, architecture or urban detail to present the familiar world in an unfamiliar way. Ramses Moya is a global traveler whose photography illuminates a common humanity of the world's peoples, cultures and places. John Riddell is a freelance photojournalist and a visual documentarian of the world around him.
BLUE DOT GALLERY
GOTTA DANCE!
BEVERLEY ABRAMSON
"Gotta Dance" celebrates motion with a collection of toned black and white photographs. Brazilian Samba and Capoeira are some of the most recent dance cultures in this evolving study of the universality of music and the relationship between sound, motion and emotion. Expressing the artistry, magnetism and athleticism of dance the series includes Cuban cabaret; Texas two-stepping; Torontos exotic dance; international ballroom and Latin American dance; and Pow Wow competitions. Generous sponsors are Alliance Atlantis Cinemas and Strategic Advisors Corp.
BRUSH GALLERY
L7
JAMES STORIE
The square, the lowly square. it is the inspiration for my work, it is the derided pixel, it is the pure geometric shape. it is beauty. Curated by Scott Hannay.
CASE GOODS WAREHOUSE STUDIO 409/410
BELONG
MELANIE GORDON, DAVE PIJUAN-NOMURA
As modern culture focuses in on the individual, there is an increasing need for a sense of belonging. The feeling of being 'out of place' is often the first signpost delineating where we belong. Melanie Gordon and David Pijuan-Nomura explore the tension in being out of place.
CORKIN SHOPLAND GALLERY
SAMBO 70 / AMERICAN ICONS
ANASTASIA KHOROSHILOVA
Anastasia Khoroshilova, born in 1978 in Moscow, belongs to the new generation of artists from post-diaspora Russia. Educated and living abroad, they see themselves as part of the international scene, not as emigrants. Khoroshilovas acclaimed series Islanders documents a Russia inaccessible to tourists: a village, a military town, an orphanage, a dance academy and, in the newest addition to the project, Sambo 70, young wrestlers posing in gymnasia. The apparently cool objectivism of these works, and their unstudied poses from Kutcher-esque swagger to Kruschevlike solidity yield complex social and psychological studies.
American Icons covers every decade of the 20th century and illustrates the formative nature of photojournalism in documenting globalization as it was happening. While the history of photography is richly based in Europe, American photographers embraced it with exuberance. Stieglitzs Steerage, documenting the first wave of transmigration in 1907, literally and figuratively changed the face of America. Yet it took a Swiss, Robert Frank, to show what the Americans really looked like. Such images and others from the depression-era FSA and f64 group whose prints devised fantasies of escapism, to Arbus, Goldin and Winogrand together depict the real American melting pot.
FLUID LIVING
LIEBE
JONATHAN FORSYTHE
Jonathan Forsythe is an up and coming New York based fashion, music and art photographer. His first solo exhibition, titled 'Liebe' contains gentle, perceptive and seductive images that infuse modern fashion, romance, art and culture, beautifully captured in a recent trip to Berlin. Fluid Living is a contemporary home furniture and accessories store that carries design from around the globe, located in the historic Distillery District. Curated by Rachel Dyck.
LABORATOIRE D'ART
CULTURE INTIME
JOCELYNE BELCOURT SALEM, NICOLE CROISET
Culture intime features photo-based installations by Nicole Croiset and Jocelyne Belcourt Salem that explore the challenges as well as the possibilities for personal expression and exchange within a multicultural context. Curated by Cheryl Rondeau.
MONTE CLARK GALLERY
PRIZE WINNING PHOTOGRAPHS
CHRIS GERGLEY
A diverse collection of images reflecting 15 years of rigorous, often playful, always calculated photography, this exhibition reflects Gergleys own preoccupation with documenting urbanization as it really is. Following in the tradition of topographical photographers such as Watkins, Atget and Adams, Gergleys eye seeks out both the trite and the incredible in the urban landscape, lingering on those places that seem most caught between past and present. From the suburban garage at the end of the rainbow to urban agriculture and its prize bulls, Gergleys images may resemble 19th and 20th-century folk art or genre pictures, but they are always directly linked to the language of photography. Born in Regina, Chris Gergley is a Vancouver-based photographer. He graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1996.
PIKTO GALLERY
ROUGH BEAUTY
DAVE ANDERSON
Photographed predominantly in the rural town of Vidor, Texas, "Rough Beauty" explores the character and burden of a community branded by its history. Vidor is reviled for its history of Klan activities, but behind this stereotype lingers a town filled with bootstrappers who haven't been able to lift themselves up and a crushing poverty sometimes reminiscent of the depression. Still, life goes on... Curated by Catherine Farquharson.
PROOF STUDIO GALLERY
ARTIFACTS & EVIDENCE
JOHN DRAJEWICZ, SHEILA JONAH
Torontos newest photo/print studio gallery in the Historic Distillery District showcases the photographs of Sheila Jonah and John Drajewicz. Their images invite the viewer to contemplate human objects and architecture in contrast with distilled evidence of the natural environment. These visual refinements, viewed side by side, question which world is dominant the man-made world of human artifacts and structures or the natural world which is the ultimate source and destination of all physical things.
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Regards, Art.
OK, here's a listing of galleries that you can see as part of the largest photographic exhibition in North America - Contact Photo Festival.
This tour outlined below shows galleries in an enclosed area called the Distillery District which was a very old Gooterhams and Worts plant. There is a historical importance to this tour because of the venue.
My recommendation is to go to this area on Friday, May 5 since there will be less tourists. I believe this tour will be guided by someone from the Elevator staff. TBD.
-------------------------------------------
ARTCORE/FABRICE MARCOLINI
DATASCAPES
JOAN FONTCUBERTA
Award-winning Barcelona-based photographer Fontcuberta presents two new bodies of digital work. In Googlegrams, mosaics of culturally charged images are created from smaller, conceptually related snapshots culled via Google image searches. Penny-sized portraits of the richest men and women in the world are pieced together into a mosaic depicting a homeless man; the iconic image of a detainee tortured at Abu Ghraib is cobbled together out of images of public officials involved in the scandal. In Landscapes without Memory, Fontcuberta co-opts a different piece of software, one originally designed to turn 2-D information photographs or satellite imagery into three-D landscapes. Using it, Fontcuberta tranforms masterworks by Turner, Cézanne, Dalí, Stieglitz and Weston into mountains, rivers, valleys and clouds. The vocabulary of art thus becomes that of cartography.
BALZAC'S CAFE
TRIOFOTO
STEPHEN BURNIE, RAMSES MOYA, JOHN RIDDELL
Stephen Burnie works in fine art abstracts - shooting nature, architecture or urban detail to present the familiar world in an unfamiliar way. Ramses Moya is a global traveler whose photography illuminates a common humanity of the world's peoples, cultures and places. John Riddell is a freelance photojournalist and a visual documentarian of the world around him.
BLUE DOT GALLERY
GOTTA DANCE!
BEVERLEY ABRAMSON
"Gotta Dance" celebrates motion with a collection of toned black and white photographs. Brazilian Samba and Capoeira are some of the most recent dance cultures in this evolving study of the universality of music and the relationship between sound, motion and emotion. Expressing the artistry, magnetism and athleticism of dance the series includes Cuban cabaret; Texas two-stepping; Torontos exotic dance; international ballroom and Latin American dance; and Pow Wow competitions. Generous sponsors are Alliance Atlantis Cinemas and Strategic Advisors Corp.
BRUSH GALLERY
L7
JAMES STORIE
The square, the lowly square. it is the inspiration for my work, it is the derided pixel, it is the pure geometric shape. it is beauty. Curated by Scott Hannay.
CASE GOODS WAREHOUSE STUDIO 409/410
BELONG
MELANIE GORDON, DAVE PIJUAN-NOMURA
As modern culture focuses in on the individual, there is an increasing need for a sense of belonging. The feeling of being 'out of place' is often the first signpost delineating where we belong. Melanie Gordon and David Pijuan-Nomura explore the tension in being out of place.
CORKIN SHOPLAND GALLERY
SAMBO 70 / AMERICAN ICONS
ANASTASIA KHOROSHILOVA
Anastasia Khoroshilova, born in 1978 in Moscow, belongs to the new generation of artists from post-diaspora Russia. Educated and living abroad, they see themselves as part of the international scene, not as emigrants. Khoroshilovas acclaimed series Islanders documents a Russia inaccessible to tourists: a village, a military town, an orphanage, a dance academy and, in the newest addition to the project, Sambo 70, young wrestlers posing in gymnasia. The apparently cool objectivism of these works, and their unstudied poses from Kutcher-esque swagger to Kruschevlike solidity yield complex social and psychological studies.
American Icons covers every decade of the 20th century and illustrates the formative nature of photojournalism in documenting globalization as it was happening. While the history of photography is richly based in Europe, American photographers embraced it with exuberance. Stieglitzs Steerage, documenting the first wave of transmigration in 1907, literally and figuratively changed the face of America. Yet it took a Swiss, Robert Frank, to show what the Americans really looked like. Such images and others from the depression-era FSA and f64 group whose prints devised fantasies of escapism, to Arbus, Goldin and Winogrand together depict the real American melting pot.
FLUID LIVING
LIEBE
JONATHAN FORSYTHE
Jonathan Forsythe is an up and coming New York based fashion, music and art photographer. His first solo exhibition, titled 'Liebe' contains gentle, perceptive and seductive images that infuse modern fashion, romance, art and culture, beautifully captured in a recent trip to Berlin. Fluid Living is a contemporary home furniture and accessories store that carries design from around the globe, located in the historic Distillery District. Curated by Rachel Dyck.
LABORATOIRE D'ART
CULTURE INTIME
JOCELYNE BELCOURT SALEM, NICOLE CROISET
Culture intime features photo-based installations by Nicole Croiset and Jocelyne Belcourt Salem that explore the challenges as well as the possibilities for personal expression and exchange within a multicultural context. Curated by Cheryl Rondeau.
MONTE CLARK GALLERY
PRIZE WINNING PHOTOGRAPHS
CHRIS GERGLEY
A diverse collection of images reflecting 15 years of rigorous, often playful, always calculated photography, this exhibition reflects Gergleys own preoccupation with documenting urbanization as it really is. Following in the tradition of topographical photographers such as Watkins, Atget and Adams, Gergleys eye seeks out both the trite and the incredible in the urban landscape, lingering on those places that seem most caught between past and present. From the suburban garage at the end of the rainbow to urban agriculture and its prize bulls, Gergleys images may resemble 19th and 20th-century folk art or genre pictures, but they are always directly linked to the language of photography. Born in Regina, Chris Gergley is a Vancouver-based photographer. He graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1996.
PIKTO GALLERY
ROUGH BEAUTY
DAVE ANDERSON
Photographed predominantly in the rural town of Vidor, Texas, "Rough Beauty" explores the character and burden of a community branded by its history. Vidor is reviled for its history of Klan activities, but behind this stereotype lingers a town filled with bootstrappers who haven't been able to lift themselves up and a crushing poverty sometimes reminiscent of the depression. Still, life goes on... Curated by Catherine Farquharson.
PROOF STUDIO GALLERY
ARTIFACTS & EVIDENCE
JOHN DRAJEWICZ, SHEILA JONAH
Torontos newest photo/print studio gallery in the Historic Distillery District showcases the photographs of Sheila Jonah and John Drajewicz. Their images invite the viewer to contemplate human objects and architecture in contrast with distilled evidence of the natural environment. These visual refinements, viewed side by side, question which world is dominant the man-made world of human artifacts and structures or the natural world which is the ultimate source and destination of all physical things.
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Regards, Art.
